Sigourney Award Winner In The News
/We’re happy to find our prestigious winners in the news, and our Italian colleagues feature Roosevelt Cassorla in this podcast today. Congratulations, Dr. Cassorla!
Read MoreWe’re happy to find our prestigious winners in the news, and our Italian colleagues feature Roosevelt Cassorla in this podcast today. Congratulations, Dr. Cassorla!
Read MoreClick to view the FEPAL manifesto video, including past Sigourney Award winners!
Read MoreThe Sigourney Award honors four recipients with distinguished independent prize for advancing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought. Recipients from Argentina, Germany, Norway, and the United States take home The Sigourney Award 2019.
Read MoreDr. Henri Parens’ innovative research work focused on a psychoanalytic approach to the understanding and treatment of aggression. Working with caregiver/children dyads, Dr. Parens and his colleagues documented their hypothesis that caregivers could be taught optimal ways to handle the emergence of aggression in children and this approach could improve the children’s lives. Dr. Parens and his colleagues used real life moments to help teach parents and caregivers how to respond in ways that would enhance their children’s emotional development. Focusing on the caregiver’s role in shaping the child’s capacity to manage their own aggression and teaching caregivers new ways of responding at moments of real urgency between caregiver and child, Dr. Parens is able to teach new and alternative ways to handle aggression.
Read MoreA not-for-profit charity organization, Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA) is unique in its location of pain and guilt within the group, rather than in the individual. While PCCA is a community-based psychoanalytic and social welfare enterprise led by psychanalysts from various countries, it also attracts and recruits many non-analysts. PCCA seeks to positively impact the residual effects of trauma and atrocities on individuals, communities, and national groups. PCCA represents the extension and application of psychoanalysis to the sphere of social reality and offers a fruitful way of dealing with large scale trauma, beginning with the Holocaust and extending to other atrocities, victims and perpetrators.
Read MoreHonoring Psychoanalytic Achievement Worldwide